too loverly to eat

Fig, Apricot and Pistachio Christmas Cake

I never got round to writing about my Christmas cake last year and as I tried a new recipe I thought it was worth adding to our Christmas blogs this year. The recipe was from the Sainsbury’s magazine and was a really lovely moist squishy Christmas cake. Click

I used gluten free flour for this, the cake was still lovely and moist, but crumbled quite a bit when it was sliced. The recipe can be found here.

For the decoration I was keen to try out my new air gun to spray the cake navy blue. It was a lot of fun to use and it resulted in a much darker colour than I could have achieved by colouring the sugar paste. But it wasn’t until afterwards that I realised my entire kitchen had been covered by a thin film of navy food colour as the tiny particles dispersed round the room while I was using the air gun. This meant every surface had an invisible film of navy food colouring that was only apparent if you got it wet! So for my Birthday this year Rich bought me a photographers tent to put the cakes in when they are being sprayed to help contain the mist of food colouring! The other disadvantage is that your mouth turns navy blue when you eat the icing!! The cake tastes lovely though and made a nice change from Delia’s Christmas cake.